5678 x 3786 px | 48,1 x 32,1 cm | 18,9 x 12,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
21. August 2008
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This bill is a banknote from Austria - not Germany. "Kronen" was name of the Austrian currency in the early 20th century. The note is very common and has not a large collectors value, maybe a few dollars only. The Krone (pl. Kronen) was the currency of Austria (then called Deutschösterreich) and Liechtenstein after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) until the introduction of the Schilling (1925). According to the Treaty of St. Germain the newly created Republic of Austria had to overstamp the paper money circulating in its territory, then had to replace the overstamped banknotes with new ones, finally had to introduce a new currency. To fulfil the first step, circulating banknotes were overstamped with the inscription DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH, and new banknotes were also issued with this feature. Later, still under the name Oesterreichisch-ungarische Bank, banknotes were printed using the German-language clichés on both sides - and still bearing the DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH inscription. From 1920 on a new stamp appeared on banknotes: "Ausgegeben nach dem 4. Oktober 1920". In 1922 a new series of Krone banknotes was introduced with a completely new design to fulfil the second step. The series contained 1 Krone, 2, 10, 20, 100, 1000, 5000, 50 000, 100 000 and 500 000 Kronen, later 10 000 Kronen (1 000 000 Kronen was planned but not issued). In 1925, as the third step, the new Schilling banknotes were emitted.
